In a sudden move former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh's legislator son Jagat Singh on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. A sitting legislator from Laxmangarh in Alwar district, Singh was expelled from the Congress in the aftermath of the food for oil scam allegedly involving his father about two years ago
The ED had initiated proceedings against the two for alleged violation of FEMA.
The duo had approached the court when the government body refused to provide all documents collected by it in the oil-for-food scam.
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"It was a conspiracy of US in which Congress and the media were also involved," he alleged.
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Sibal, however, added that Natwar's removal did not mean that he was guilty.
IT units in West Bengal have been promised protection during strikes.
He said while Indian participation in the Sakhalin-1 project demonstrated the joint capabilities and mutuality of interests, India was fully prepared with its technical and financial resources to expand its presence in the Russian energy sector.
This is part of high-level exchanges between India and Bhutan.
The allegations had been made by Natwar after his indictment by the Pathak panel.
Iraq can send its personnel to India for training on the conduct of polls, Natwar Singh said.
The external affairs minister said talks on the Kashmir issue cannot move forward till cross-border terrorism stopped.
The three will be among 22 others attending the third ACD Foreign Ministers' meeting from June 21-22.
Directing them to appear before the ED on April 24, a bench comprising Justice T S Thakur and Justice Kailash Gambhir also rejected the father-son duo's plea seeking copies of all the documents, related to the scam, available with the government. The court was hearing their petition challenging an order by a single judge bench, which rejected their plea seeking copies of all the documents related to the scam.
The plea challenges a single bench order of the high court that refused to provide all the documents on Iraq's oil-for-food scam to them.
He said the US signed the nuclear agreement with India on July 18, 2005 after which it made certain fundamental changes, which were not in the larger interest of the country.
Diplomatic sources also indicated that the Indian minister may brief the Russian leadership on the progress made in India-Pakistan composite dialogue.
Manmohan Singh's reign as prime minister has been severely criticised by his former ministerial colleague Natwar Singh, who says he leaves no legacy after being in power for 10 years.
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Describing the meeting as "a very good one", Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters that basically what 'she (Rice) did was to set the stage for the important meeting between President Bush and the prime minister'
As a debate continues over comments made about Sonia Gandhi in a new book by Natwar Singh, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday said the issue has left an "unpleasant taste" and the former minister has forgotten the "good counsel and guidance" that he himself used to give.
Former Union Minister Natwar Singh, who has kicked up a storm with his book and comments about Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday said revival of Congress party was important for India and democracy.
Justice R S Pathak was probing allegations against Congress and Natwar Singh in the oil-for-food scam.
The frosty relationship between Sonia Gandhi and late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao comes out in full view in Natwar Singh's autobiography which says Gandhi was "never fond of" Rao who wondered why she was so "hostile" to him.
"Now the question is why the Indian government decided to act on a report, which was completely trashed in other parts of the world. This I would reveal in my new book, which I am going to write soon," he said.
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Natwar said he favoured the closest of relations between India and the United States.
It was a United Nations Committee and Washington had nothing to do with it.
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